Dustin, thanks for your reply.
Have tried mixed mode as well as Windows. I finally managed to get access by adding my Domain username into the logins section.
Ideally I wanted to give all DOMAIN USERS access to this database (With restrictions) . Hopefully to give some stability and control via AD.
DOMAIN\username was for security.
Although reasonably ok with AD etc I am new to SQL so would be interested if I am going about this in the best way.
Thanks
Iain

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